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Dangerous Driving: Invalid Vehicles

Jeff Ennis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what programmes his Department has for people who have committed an offence of riding mobility scooters in a dangerous way. [302133]

Mr. Khan: I have been asked to reply.

There is no offence in law of riding a mobility scooter in a dangerous manner, therefore there are no mandatory driver rehabilitation programmes in place.

Departmental Domestic Visits

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice on how many occasions he visited (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland in an official capacity in the last 12 months. [303490]

Mr. Straw: I made five official visits in total to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in the past 12 months. The dates and reason for travel are listed.

All travel was made in accordance with the Ministerial Code.


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Departmental Food

Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) lamb, (b) beef, (c) chicken, (d) pork, (e) turkey, (f) other meats, (g) vegetables and (h) fruit procured
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by his Department that was produced in the UK in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [300191]

Claire Ward: Percentages of each product type used by the Ministry of Justice that are produced in the UK are shown in the following table:

Percentage
Reference Category MoJ MoJ-public sector prisons MoJ-private prisons

Meat and poultry

(a)

Mutton and lamb

55

65

53

(b)

Beef and veal

84

46

48

(c)

Poultry meat

14

2

40

(d)

Pork

70

18

36

(d)

Bacon

4

0

28

Vegetables, salads and fruit

(g)

Ware potatoes-whole, unprepared

97

98

99

(g)

Processed potatoes-for prepared both whole and cut

6

64

60

(g)

Roots and onions, e.g. carrots, parsnips, onions, turnips and swedes

97

66

77

(g)

Brassicas, e.g. Brussels sprouts, cabbage and cauliflower

80

55

78

(g)

Legumes, e.g. beans (broad), beans (runner and dwarf), peas (green for market), peas (green for processing), peas (harvested dry)

74

1

24

(g)

Protected vegetables, e.g. tomatoes (round, vine, plum and cherry), tomatoes (cold), cucumbers, lettuce, celery, sweet peppers

38

39

45

(g)

Other vegetables, e.g. asparagus, celery, leeks, lettuce, watercress

75

18

56

(h)

Orchard fruit, e.g. dessert apples, culinary apples, pears, plums

40

0

12

(h)

Soft fruit, e.g. strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blackcurrants

39

0

26


Her Majesty's Court Service and headquarters buildings-locations with centrally let catering contracts( 1)
Ministry of Justice Number

Public sector prisons

128

Private prisons

11

(1) There are no food contracts.

This most recent information is contained in a Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs report for 2007-08 detailing the proportion of food grown or reared in the UK used by Whitehall Departments, including that supplied to public sector prisons in England and Wales under contracts negotiated by HM Prison Service, now part of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS).

A copy of this report was placed in the House of Commons Library. A copy can be obtained using the following link:

Departmental Travel

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice on what date he last travelled by (a) bus and (b) taxi in the course of his official duties. [302724]

Mr. Straw: The information is as follows:

(a) Not in the last 12 months, and

(b) 17 September 2009.

Departmental Working Hours

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what proportion of staff of his Department, its executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies work flexibly or part-time; and what his Department's policy is on making jobs available on a job-share or flexible basis. [301329]

Mr. Straw: In the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), the number and proportion of staff who work part-time is shown in the following table.

Table of Part-timers and Full-timers in the Ministry of Justice

 Part Time (PT) PT (%) Full Time (FT) FT (%) Total

Total

11,259

14.1

68,604

85.9

79,863

Note:
ONS Data as at 30m June 2009

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These figures include civil servants employed in the MOJ, its executive agencies and Wales Office plus MOJ staff on secondment to Scotland Office all of which are recorded on the central HR databases.

Managers consider all requests to work flexibly. Many of these requests for flexible working may be made informally and therefore will not be formally recorded. Information concerning how many staff participate in such arrangements is not collated centrally and could not be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.

In the MOJ all jobs are available on a job-share or flexible basis, unless there is a business reason why this cannot be granted.

Driving Offences

Nadine Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people in (a) Mid Bedfordshire
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constituency, (b) the East of England and (c) England were disqualified from driving as a result of (i) drink driving, (ii) speeding and (iii) dangerous or reckless driving in each of the last 10 years. [302925]

Claire Ward: The number of disqualifications imposed at all courts in the Bedfordshire police force area, the East of England Government office region and England for driving after consuming alcohol or taking drugs, speed limit offences, dangerous and careless driving offences, is given in Tables 1, 2 and 3 from 1998 to 2007 (latest available).

There is no specific offence of reckless driving, thus information included in the table is for offences of dangerous and careless driving.

Court proceedings data are not available at parliamentary constituency level.

Data for 2008 are planned for publication on 28 January 2010.

Table 1: The number of disqualifications imposed at all courts in the Bedfordshire police force area, for selected motoring offences, from 1998 to 2007( 1,2)
number of offences
Offence type 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Dangerous driving

35

36

32

37

41

71

48

64

70

61

Driving etc. after consuming alcohol or taking drugs

993

820

756

857

899

1,013

1,016

987

1,073

994

Careless driving

17

13

22

42

34

37

28

34

47

48

Speed limit offences

158

121

126

138

117

289

238

441

355

258

Total

1,203

990

936

1,074

1,091

1,410

1,330

1,526

1,545

1,361

(1) It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings, in particular those relating to summary motoring offences, may be less than complete. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services-Ministry of Justice.
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